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Building borders in a borderless land: English colonialism and the alam Minangkabau of Sumatra, 1680–1730
(2021-01-01)This article adopts the concept of securitisation to understand the failure of the English East India Company’s attempt to build a territorial empire on the island of Sumatra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. ... -
Building, Dwelling, Dying: Architecture and History in Pakistan
There is a long history of scholars finding in architecture tools for thinking, whether this is the relationship between nature and culture in Simmel’s ruins, industrial capitalism in Benjamin’s Parisian arcades, or the ... -
Busman's stomach and the embodiment of modernity.
(2017-01-02)This paper examines the relationship between the gastric illness, 'busman's stomach' and the Coronation bus strike of May 1937 in which 27,000 London busworkers walked out for better working conditions and a seven-and-half-hour ... -
'Calculated to Strike Terror': The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence
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Carolina Rahm und das deutsche Jahrhundert der Extreme
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"Catharism" in questions
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Charity and the end of empire: British Non-Governmental Organisations, Africa and international development in the 1960s
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Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-18)This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. -
Clinical molecular genetics in the UK c.1975-c.2000
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-02-16)Chaired by Professor Martin Bobrow and introduced by Professor Bob Williamson, this Witness Seminar included geneticists from a broad range of research and clinical specialities. Discussions of molecular research into ... -
COERCION AND CONCILIATION AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE: STATE-BUILDING AND ITS LIMITS IN WAZIRISTAN, 1849–1914
Since 2001, the geo-strategic priorities of the ‘War on Terror’ have prompted renewed attention to the historically significant region of Waziristan. Ironically, given the apparent failure of British attempts to pacify the ... -
Common Knowledge: Bodies, Evidence, and Expertise in Early Modern Germany
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-06-01)Over the past twenty-five years, history of science has expanded into history of knowledge. Plurality has been the main message. Commonality, by contrast, is the main finding of the present study. It examines the knowledge ... -
Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe
(Oxford University Press, USA, 2019-02-07)Corens proposes a new interpretative model of 'confessional mobility'. She opens up the debate to include pilgrims, grand tour travellers, students, and mobile scholars alongside exiles.